Keeping Relevant With Ronnie Eldridge

Angelo Falcón, founder president of the National Institute for Latino Policy, describes Puerto Rico as being in a political "twilight zone," with a fragile economy, a poorly managed government, and out-of-control borrowing leading to a $73 billion debt.

Allen Roskoff, gay rights activist, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, discusses Stonewall, campaigns of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance to change minds and hearts, rules and practices about the LGBT community.

Doug Muzzio, Baruch College Survey Research Unit, discusses "polling," an integral part of our political lives and more, facing significant problems: the increase in cell phones, for one, making it difficult and very expensive to reach people.

Asha Bandele, "The Prisoner's Wife" talks about the policies of the "prison industrial complex" on the community and on the lives of the incarcerated and their families. Technology in private prisons substitutes "virtual visits" for face-to-face visits.

Emily Horowitz, St. Francis College, and author of "Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws are Failing Us" discusses draconian sex offender laws, asking if these laws protect children or are they examples of unfair practices that are not effective.

Mika Dashman, founder of the Restorative Justice Initiative in NYC discusses the victor/offender dialogue, face-to-face mediation, which seeks to address the needs of the injured, while encouraging those who have caused injury to take responsibility.

Landmarks Conservancy president Peg Breen discusses the public's concern of especially tall buildings going up in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, near parks and particularly on 57th Street, affecting the character and quality of life of these communities.

NYS Senator Liz Krueger lists some of the most important issues of government today, including affordable housing, public education, equal pay, and jobs, discussing rent regulation, 421-a, ethics reform among many areas requiring attention.

Dr. Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School for 13 years, named New York State Outstanding Principal of the Year in 2013 is taking early retirement to continue to write and advocate against test-based accountability for students and teachers.

Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer discusses zoning, 421-a, up-zoning, destabilization, air rights - a dizzying array of complicated and even contradictory programs, plans, laws, practices, that must be considered when dealing with housing in NY.